The next day Nessa was home by herself for a few hours while Joe went and took care of a few things but he made sure not to leave before she had the whole house locked up and the alarm system set. She was lying on their bed watching Blade on DVD when her phone rang causing her to growl. "This better be good, you're interrupting one of my favorite movies." Nessa said into the phone.
"Aness?" Kelly asked, laughing.
"Oh, hey Kelly! Sorry about that I'm watching Blade."
"Want me to let you get back to it then?"
"No, it's fine. What did you need?" She questioned, pausing the movie and leaning back against the pillows.
"Well...it's not me exactly."
"Who is it then?" Nessa asked, though she already had a pretty good idea who he was talking about.
"It's Nick." Kelly stated, confirming what she thought and Nessa sighed.
"What about him?"
"He's not doing too good Aness."
"What do you mean? Why not?" She wondered, worried that something happened to him.
"Nick really regrets what he did and it's killing him to not be able to talk to you."
"Kelly I'm sorry but he should've thought of that."
"I know and I understand that you are angry but...please, just talk to him." He pleaded with her and Nessa sighed.
"All right, put him on the phone." Nessa said and Kelly laughed.
"So sure he's here?"
"Please, I know the two of you well enough to know that he's probably sitting there watching you and waiting to see what happens so just put him on the phone before I change my mind."
"Here he is." Kelly replied. Nessa could hear the shuffling of the phone and held her breath as she waited to hear Nick's voice.
"Aness?"
"Yeah Nicky, I'm here."
"I am so sorry! I don't know what else I can say or what I can do to prove to you how sorry I am but what ever it is...I'll do it. Just please say that you forgive me, I can't stand the thought of you hating me." Nick told her.
"Nicky I don't hate you...I could never hate you no matter what you do. It just hurts me so damn bad that you did this to me. I told you before we even left the cemetery that I didn't want to be with you, that my life is here with Joe now."
"I know and I don't think you'll ever realize how much it hurts me that we can't be together but if you're happy with Joe then I will respect that and be the best possible friend to you that I can be."
"That's all I ask of both you and Kelly. Yes, I will admit at times I do miss the relationship that the three of us had but that part of my life is over now and I'm with the one man I want to be with for the rest of my life." Nessa stated, gasping when Joe stepped in the bedroom, his arms crossed over his chest. She could tell immediately by the look on his face that he knew who she was talking to and he wasn't happy about it at all. "Nicky I've got to go."
"Everything okay?"
"No but I can't talk to you about it right now."
"All right, call me back when you get the chance." He said.
I may never get another chance. "I will." Nessa hung up the phone and took a deep breath. "Baby I..." She began but Joe cut her off with a slight raise of his hand, silencing her.
"Why in the living hell were you talking to HIM?" Joe demanded to know.
"Kelly called me and told me that he really regretted what he did and that it was killing him not to talk to me."
"So you just called him?" He snapped, sitting down on the end of the bed.
"No, he was at Kelly's when he called me."
"Well, wasn't that fucking convenient."
Joe please!" Nessa sighed. "Look, I'm sorry if you're angry with me for talking to him but Nicky, Kelly and I have been...friends for a long time and even though what Nicky did was wrong there's no way in hell I can ever hate him or not talk to him for the rest of my life." She tried to explain to him.
"I understand that but did you have to do it behind my back?"
"How was it behind your back when you weren't even here and I had no idea Kelly was even going to call me?"
"You hung up awfully fast." Joe stated.
"Because I could see that you were pissed and I knew we needed to talk about this! Sure, Nicky and Kelly are my friends but you're my husband...the Father of my child and you're more important to me than either one of them."
"Why did you hesitate when you called the three of you 'friends'?" He asked and she cringed.
He just had to have caught on to that. "Because that's not really the way to describe what they were to me at one time." Nessa replied.
"What were they?"
"At one time I was with both Nicky and Kelly...together. It was not long after I had gotten pregnant and Nicky moved in with me, my hormones were running high and I wanted sex as much as I could get it so Nicky invited Kelly to join us one night. No, before you even ask they did nothing together, their main focus was me. I liked it so much that Nicky eventually asked Kelly to move in with us and we continued our relationship until after Serenity passed away."
Joe sat staring at his wife in disbelief, he never knew that side of her even existed. Sure, Nick had told him some things but he had conveniently left that part out. "You slept with both of them at the same time?" Joe questioned, still not able to believe it.
"Yes. There's a whole other side to me that I keep hidden from most people because I know they wouldn't understand it. Nicky, I believe, told you most of it but I'm guessing by the look on your face that he didn't tell you about this. I'm sorry if you see me differently now...I hope and pray with all that I am that this doesn't cost me our marriage but I will not apologize to you or anyone else for who I am."
"I do see you differently but it's not in a bad way. I never knew there was even this side to you and I will admit that it does turn me on a little but just don't expect me to bring home anybody." He smirked and she laughed.
"I don't want you to anyway, you're all the man that I'll ever need. With anyone else that I have ever been with I never felt completely satisfied until I met you. You showed me that I can get as much pleasure from one man as I can from two."
"Is there anything else I should know about you babe?"
"Did Nicky tell you about my favorite band?" She asked and he nodded.
"Yeah, I even listened to one of their CD's. They're not bad, just not my style but that doesn't mean you can't play them when I'm around."
"You know pretty much everything then."
"Good. How about I give you some more of that pleasure?" Joe leaned over and whispered seductively in her ear causing her to moan softly.
"I never thought you'd ask." Nessa replied, pulling him gently down on top of her.
